How have other people removed these? I have a pair ready to go on but I'm a bit stumped in removing the old ones as it looks rather tight for a spanner. Do they just unscrew?

 

Cheers

yes they undo with a spanner, but remember to suport tailgate before removing struts.(a broom handle can be usefull)

Get some help, that boot is bloody heavy and doing the fitting of new struts yourself is going to be a bitch without any help!

Any idea what size spanner? Someone has nicked most of mine :cry:

 

I've got a spare bonnet stay in a cardboard tube to prop it up, but yeah I'll be getting help don't fancy another smack on the headm had enough over the last year :p

the bonnet stay wont support the boot !

Any idea what size spanner? Someone has nicked most of mine :cry:

 

I've got a spare bonnet stay in a cardboard tube to prop it up, but yeah I'll be getting help don't fancy another smack on the headm had enough over the last year :p

i know this sounds daft but please dont take the second one off before you fit the first otherwise we,ll be reading

 

"wheres the best place to get your head stiched?" :rofl: :rofl:

Ah, just engaged my brain and yeah it's not gonna hold it is it :smash:

 

Been using it for a while but obviously with the old struts. They don't hold the boot open but they're obviously taking the weight arn't they!!!!

 

This is why it's good to think things through!! Like the time I bought a fridge without measuring the gap it was going into! World of trouble that.

 

Thanks for spotting the obvious for me! I owe you both a drink for saving me the brain damage :duffer:

also theres a weight in the boot lid. take off the centre cover and there's an oblong weight just off centre right about 3-4 pound in that!!!!

12mm open end spanner required.

12mm open end spanner required.

 

Excellent thank you very much!

I supported mine by putting a large sponge on my head and resting the rear hatch on it.Not one of my best ideas I must admit. :) But got the job done :cry: Think I will stick with Blinging. :dance: :dance: :dance: